Earth Day is a great time to help clean up our neighborhood and restore our green spaces! Join us for our Earth Day Clean-Up event on...

Early in the 20th century, the Massachusetts-based Olmsted Brothers landscape design firm, designer of New York City’s Central Park and...

The Army Camp: A Researcher’s Odyssey Part 3 Soon after my second search through school district papers for references to the army camp...

The Army Camp: A Researcher’s Odyssey Part 1 Before the present-day Powell Barnett Park in Leschi was acquired by Seattle’s park...

Frink Park 9: William Cumming, Part 2 I became interested in the artist William Cumming last year, when I attended a “town hall” put on...

Frink Park 8: William Cumming, Part 1 “Sometime in an autumn in the late fifties … I was living in a disintegrating house on Thirtieth...

It has been 9 years since the passage of the metropolitan park district (MPD) which promised enhanced maintenance of neighborhood parks....

Frink Park 7: Carlos Bulosan, Part 2 Carlos Bulosan’s union work and his writing ability led him from California back to Seattle, where,...

Frink Park: Carlos Bulosan, Part 1 Overlooking hills and valleys, where trees dance and birds sing under the splendor of the sun in...

A couple of bits of Frink Park history that did not survive the ages were two clay tennis courts. One was on South King Street, just...

Frink Park was created as, and remains, a natural, wooded park in the urban surrounding. It retains the Olmsted vision of a forest...

Established in 1906, Frink Park, Leschi’s vast, rambling woods, lies in the neighborhood’s geographical heart. Yet even those who are...